Re: Which Flavour & Version?
From: Tommy Li (realitymage_at_softhome.netSPAM)
Date: 09/04/03
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Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 05:07:30 GMT
John John wrote:
> All right all you Linux experts... I am an advanced Windows user but I
> want to explore the Linux OS (stand alone for the time being). Which
> flavour & version number would you recommend. I was thinking of buying
> a disk set on ebay for $5-$10. I don't mind paying that little as
> opposed to have to download hundreds of MBs on a slow (45 kbps) internet
> connection. What would you recommend, Mandrake, Redhat, SUSE etc. ? And
> any particular version over another? If you feel that I would be just
> as well off downloading a version on the net can you provide a link and
> estimated download size?
>
> Oh yeah, I intend to install this on an IDE drive of its own on a Dell
> Dimension 8100, Pentium 4 1300 MHz, 512 MB RAM. Thanks in advance for
> your suggestions.
>
> Regards;
>
> John
>
I recommend Mandrake 9.1, as it's user-friendly, and comes with a wealth
of GUI configuration tools.
Tommy Li
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